Last week, I spent three hours refactoring a 200-line function I wrote six months ago. It was so convoluted that I almost impressed myself with how creatively bad it was. In my experience, that kind of messy code is like a time capsule of my past confusion. Refactoring it forced me to understand my own thought process, or lack thereof, and spot recurring anti-patterns. Your mileage may vary, but I find the cringe factor of revisiting old code is a powerful teacher. Honestly, my best lessons often come from cleaning up my own digital crime scenes.

Yesterday, I saw a billboard for winter coats in Phoenix where it's 90 degrees. Tbh, that's the pinnacle of spray and pray marketing genius. It's like companies are competing to see who can waste the most money on irrelevant ads. Ngl, when they do manage to target me, it's usually for something I just bought, which feels equally pointless. The whole thing is a circus where the clowns are in charge of the budget. We're not just tuning out, we're actively annoyed into ignoring everything.